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Stephen Harper is promising that his newly minted majority government will get back to work in Parliament soon, and one of his first orders of business will be to fill the void left by the defeat of three Quebec cabinet ministers.

A day after becoming the country's first elected Green MP, a victorious Elizabeth May promised she would work "to restore respect and civility" in the House of Commons, dismissing the idea her role would be limited by a Conservative majority.

Euphoric following his party's second-place finish in Monday's federal election, a fatigued-looking NDP leader Jack Layton told reporters Tuesday that his party has been given a mandate to show Ottawa that politics has to be done differently.

In the wake of his historic majority electoral victory, Prime Minister Stephen Harper signalled Tuesday that he will continually work to earn the trust of Canadians and will not move ahead with radical policies because Canadians don't like to be surprised...

Conservative leader Stephen Harper's long-running quest to attain a majority government was finally achieved Monday in a landmark federal election that also saw Jack Layton's NDP surge dramatically to become the country's official Opposition for the ...

He walked out to a standing ovation and said he would stay on as leader for as long as the party wanted, but Michael Ignatieff admitted Monday night that the Liberal Party under his leadership has suffered a historic defeat.

Following a stunning NDP performance at the polls on Monday, Jack Layton, Canada's new leader of the official Opposition, vowed to challenge the new majority Conservative government when it's "off track" and to work with Stephen Harper to "get things...

Newly released U.S. cables show that embassy officials in Ottawa believed that Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff would never bring his party into power, and Conservatives had no other alternative but to keep Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the helm of...

As the final, frantic few hours dwindled, and as a new poll showed the gap between the front-running Conservatives and NDP has narrowed to three points, the leaders made their last campaign stops Sunday in communities where they expect to pick up seats...

The gap between the front-running Conservatives and the rising NDP has narrowed to just three points, a new poll finds. The EKOS-iPolitics survey shows the Liberals trailing 11 points behind in an increasingly tight two-way race to the finish. Latest...

On his final day of campaigning before voting day, Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe told party organizers Sunday in his own downtown Montreal Laurier-Sainte-Marie riding that they have to work to get out the vote "until 9:30 p.m. tomorrow night."

Reflecting upon the last five weeks of what will surely be remembered as one of the most exciting and surprising election campaigns in Canadian history, Jack Layton says the massive rally in Montreal little more than a week ago was the singular highlight...

With less than two days to go until voting day, Michael Ignatieff spent Saturday in a frenzy making pit stops along Highway 401 focused on one objective: making sure his Liberals get out to vote on Monday.

When the Liberal party enticed a media-savvy Harvard professor to return home to Canada nearly six years ago, many anticipated the emergence of a great political thinker in the image of other successful Canadian politicians from their political family...

Riding a surge of support over the last days of the federal election campaign, the NDP was rocked Friday night by allegations from a media outlet about a visit party leader Jack Layton made to a massage business in the mid-1990s.